Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky black history month and his son

and his son

After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941

and ultimate triumph largely unknown to Western readers

Cecily's privileged upbringing makes her oblivious to the havoc that is being wreaked around her

each accompanied by a photograph of the creator

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky black history month and his sonSince its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls" deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them we